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This kind of news always gives me mixed feelings, while I'm glad some people will be able to bask in its glory--I am equally sad that even if I hold it in my hands I will never be able to understand, let alone appreciate, it.

This kind of news always gives me mixed feelings, while I'm glad some people will be able to bask in its glory--I am equally sad that even if I hold it in my hands I will never be able to understand, let alone appreciate, it.

It's Key. It may take a while, depending on length, but it's almost assured of getting a fan translation. It's not like there isn't already a huge Angel Beats! fanbase out there.

Agreed. Even though it'll be years before it sees the market and even more years before it gets translated... just knowing its out there cheers me up. Look at little busters. In November we didn't even have the visual novel. Now we have the VN completely translated and an Anime announced.

Maeda said that the main character will be Otonashi, but the story will be changed.

He aims to eliminate the flaws that were in the plot of the Anime, based on the criticisms it had recieved.

There's also word since AB!'s anime ended that He had been working on it, in which he said that he was working on a scenario where Iwasawa didn't dissapear, so I can safely assume that every character will have a storyline.

Maeda said that the main character will be Otonashi, but the story will be changed.

He aims to eliminate the flaws that were in the plot of the Anime, based on the criticisms it had recieved.

There's also word since AB!'s anime ended that He had been working on it, in which he said that he was working on a scenario where Iwasawa didn't dissapear, so I can safely assume that every character will have a storyline.

TL: "After the declarations from Visual Art's President, Takahiro Baba, made today... Jun Maeda's turn came, one of the main script writers that Key has, through his twitter account: "Flaming June", the project "Owari no Hoshi no love song" That he has together with Yanagi Nagi.
The first thing Jun Maeda wanted to settle down was that he is not involved with the Little Busters! Anime. According to him, he hasn't even supervised scenarios nor scripts, nor anything, and that it's in the hands of the corresponding 'professionals'.
On the other hand, answering the doubts about a visual novel for Angel Beats!, Jun Maeda revealed that the main character will be Yuzuru Otonashi, same as with the anime, but the story will be different. According to Maeda, changes were made to the "bases" of the world after the critics it suffered in the anime.
Last but not least, one of the other substance-filled tweets, Maeda said that he was in the middle of writing the game scenario right now"

Stick to your guns, sir Jun, it's when you do what you're good at that you become one of the best. And I could tell you were trying to fill as much as you could into those episodes, which while being great attempts, still suffered some major flaws that convinced me yet again that anime was not for me.

So...this could mean 2013, 14 or even later release, who's to know as of this moment...

The anime faced several discrepancies thanks to limited budget and of course Jun Maeda having to cram a story probably worth 100 episodes into 13. episodes.

You can simply tell due to the amount of characters and content that it needed way more episodes than it actually got. But blame production companies.

In any case. I'm actually thinking that the Visual Novel will need to be something like School Days. Something animated, instead of the normal, "old" style VN... The amount of action and other factors that come in would make it excellent for that pattern.

Oh yeah definately. I meant that the visual novel would be better off with animations like the School days VN did, than old school visual novels. I mean I'm sure that Key could afford to do that, right?

It also gives way better playability than the minigames in LB for example...

And if Key is also one of the few VN makers that turn the page towards animated visual novels... well it'll be kick ass

This has great potential. The fascinating world of Angel Beats can fit well in a large visual novel form. While it's good to see that they're changing the story a bit, I hope they can preserve the excitement and wonder that the good parts of the anime managed to have.

Also, does this mark the return of Maeda Jun to writing visual novels?

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Originally Posted by Balzac

So...this could mean 2013, 14 or even later release, who's to know as of this moment...

I'll pretend that it'll be a 2015 release at the earliest. Don't want to hype myself up for too long.